She turned. Not surprised to find me there — her eyes said she'd known I was nearby for at least the last five minutes. "I know," she said. "Davies knows too. He just needed someone to say it out loud in front of witnesses."
"Is that your management strategy? Saying what people already know out loud in front of witnesses?"
"It's one of them." She tilted her head slightly. "Is your strategy waiting for other people to say the thing first and then agreeing with it?"
"Only when the other person is right."
"And how often does that happen?"
"More often than I expected," I said. "Recently."
Something shifted in her expression—there and gone, filed away before I could read it. She looked at the room instead, the way she sometimes did when she wanted a moment to think without me watching the
